"businesses owned by Latter-Day Saints close early on Mondays so they and their customers are able to spend more time with their families. A number of popular songs in Western culture feature Monday, often as a day of depression, anxiety, avolition, hysteria, or melancholy (mostly because of its association with the first day of the work week). For example, ""Monday, Monday"" (1966) from the Mamas & the Papas, ""Rainy Days and Mondays"" (1971) from the Carpenters, ""I Don't Like Mondays"" (1979) from the Boomtown Rats, and ""Manic Monday"" (1986) from the Bangles (written by Prince). There is a band named"
"Knew What She Wants"", both were ""refreshingly melodic"". Chris Willman from ""Los Angeles Times"" commented: ""The first single 'Manic Monday' represents slumming songwriter Prince's attempt mostly successful save for the inevitable getting down interlude to concoct a modern day Mamas and the Papas hit."" ""Manic Monday"" debuted at number 86 on the ""Billboard"" Hot 100, on the week ending January 25, 1986, and reached a peak of number two, on the issue dated April 19, 1986, being blocked from the top of the chart by Prince and the Revolution's single ""Kiss"". In the United Kingdom ""Manic Monday"" debuted at number"
"of the week. It reached its peak two weeks later at number four, where it remained another week. In the Netherlands, the single debuted at number 43 on February 22, 1986; and managed to reach number 24. It stayed on the chart for seven weeks. In Norway, ""Manic Monday"" debuted at number nine in the 10th week of 1986, becoming the second highest debut of the week. It also reached the number four two weeks later, where it stayed another two. The song also peaked within the top five in the Austrian, the Irish, and the New Zealand charts. Manic"
"85 on February 8, 1986, and entered the top 40, at number 24, on February 22, 1986. The song eventually reached its peak position, at number two, the next month. In Germany, the single debuted at number 29 on March 17, 1986, reaching the top 10 in the next three weeks, and its peak, also at number two, on April 14, 1986, where it stayed two weeks. It remained in the top 10 for four more weeks leaving the charts on July 20, 1986. In Switzerland ""Manic Monday"" debuted at number 12 on March 30, 1986, becoming the highest debut"
"1986 ""Crush on You"", which peaked at #3 in July 1986 on the USA ""Billboard"" Hot 100 (#5 UK, #4 US R&B, #4 US Dance). They are also known for the singles ""You Got It All"", ""Cross My Broken Heart"", ""Rocket 2 U"", and ""Make It Real"". ""Sendin' All My Love"", which peaked at #88 on the Hot 100, reached #1 on the ""Billboard"" dance chart; ""You Got It All"" and ""Make It Real"", both ballads featuring lead vocals by Elizabeth Wolfgramm, were #1 hits on the ""Billboard"" adult contemporary chart. The band was nominated for a Grammy Award in"
"recorded the political spoken word piece ""El Pollo Loco"" for the double LP compilation ""Neighborhood Rhythms"". Although ""All Over the Place"" was well regarded by critics, it was not a chart success. Like her bandmates, Steele only achieved popular success and fame with the 1986 release of ""Different Light"" and its hit singles ""Manic Monday"" (#2) and ""Walk Like An Egyptian"" (#1). In addition to playing melodic and often intricate basslines, Steele sings lead on two songs: a cover of Big Star's ""September Gurls"", later credited for belatedly bringing songwriter Alex Chilton a large income from royalties, and the self-penned"
"line-up of June, Ruth, and Anita, winning two more Grammys for the top 10 hits ""Jump (for My Love)"" (1984) and ""Automatic"" (1984). The group's other U.S. top 10 hits are ""Fire"" (1979), ""He's So Shy"" (1980), ""Slow Hand"" (1981), the remixed version of ""I'm So Excited"" (1984) and ""Neutron Dance"" (1985). June Pointer, the youngest sister, struggled with drug addiction for much of her career, leaving the group in April 2004 and dying from extensive cancer in April 2006, at the age of 52. She was replaced by Ruth's daughter Issa Pointer. This trio had a number two hit"
"UK Singles Chart in November 1986 and reached number one in the US on December 20, staying at the top of the Hot 100 for four weeks, carrying it over into January 1987. The song is the first song by an all-female group playing their own instruments to top the ""Billboard"" singles chart. The success of the song and ""Manic Monday"" propelled ""Different Light"" to number two on the ""Billboard"" 200 chart, making it the group's most successful album. The music video for ""Walk Like an Egyptian"" was nominated for Best Group Video at the 1987 MTV Video Music Awards."
"1980s, reaching #1 in the United States with the single ""Walk Like an Egyptian"" in 1986. The movement's influence on 1980s contemporaries, such as English bands The Teardrop Explodes and Echo & the Bunnymen, and Seattle's The Green Pajamas, has been noted. In the mid-1980s, Prince was notably influenced by the Paisley Underground sound: not only did his 1985 album ""Around the World in a Day"" have a more psychedelic sound than any of his previous or future work, but he also named his record label (Paisley Park Records) after the movement, wrote ""Manic Monday"" for the Bangles, and signed"
"Girl Monstar Girl Monstar were an all female Australian rock band which formed 1988 with the line-up of Damian Child on bass guitar; Anne McCue on lead guitar and vocals; Sherry Valier (aka Sherry Rich) on vocals and rhythm guitar (ex-Cactus Fever); and Sue World on drums and vocals (ex-Wet Ones). Both of their singles, ""Surfing on a Wave of Love"" / ""He's Hell"" (1989) and ""Joe Cool"" (1990), topped the Australian Independent charts. They issued one album, ""Monstereo Delicio"", in July 1992 on Timberyard Records. Child was replaced by Janene Abbott but the group disbanded in 1993. Australian musicologist,"
"Girls"" (aka ""Delta Pi"", 1985) with Academy Awards winner Ruth Gordon, and the Australian film ""Backstage"". She sang on major national television and radio campaigns for products including Dr Pepper, Coca-Cola and Chrysler, which sponsored her 1985–1986 ""Hold Me"" tour. The year 1984 was the height of the European synthpop era, and ""Self Control"", the title track of Branigan's third album, released in April 1984 became her biggest hit internationally, topping the charts in over six countries, most notably West Germany, where it spent six weeks at No. 1. The original version. recorded a few months earlier in 1984 by"
"in 1986. The new name was taken from a quotation in an ""NME"" article on Jamie Wednesday by David Quantick. In 1986, the band released the ""Poppies Say Grrr!"" single which became the 'Single Of The Week' in the ""NME"" and playlisted by Janice Long BBC Radio 1. The single was sold in a brown paper bag and was made available for sale at Martins Newsagents in Stourbridge High Street as well as from the home of one of the band. With their newfound popularity, the band set off on a six-week tour of Europe, often encountering hostility at the"
"number one spot. In 1979, ""I Don't Like Mondays"", was released. This was written in response to a school shooting in California carried out by Brenda Ann Spencer, and also reached No. 1 in the UK. It was a worldwide hit, with the exception being the United States. It was the band's only song to reach the US ""Billboard"" Hot 100 and was included in the band's third album, ""The Fine Art of Surfacing"". The album also contained ""Diamond Smiles"" and their next Top 10 hit in the UK, ""Someone's Looking at You"". In 1980 ""Banana Republic"" was released, which"
"conjunction with the array of hit singles it yielded: ""Mothers Talk"" (re-recorded yet again for its US release in 1986), ""Shout"" (no. 4 UK, no. 1 in the US, Australia, Canada, Germany, the Netherlands, Switzerland, and a huge hit in other territories, in fact one of the biggest hit songs of the 1980s), ""Everybody Wants to Rule the World"" (their highest-charting UK and Irish hit at no. 2 and another no. 1 in the US and in Canada), ""Head over Heels"" (UK no. 12, US no. 3, Ireland no. 5, Canada no. 8), and ""I Believe (A Soulful Re-Recording)"" (UK"
"produced the hit singles ""Manic Monday"", ""If She Knew What She Wants"", and ""Walk Like an Egyptian"". In 1986, Hoffs co-wrote ""I Need a Disguise"" for the album ""Belinda"" for Belinda Carlisle, from the all-girl group The Go-Go's. With increasing fame, Hoffs also appeared on the covers of numerous magazines, and the Rickenbacker guitar company issued a Susanna Hoffs model of the 350, which she customized herself. In 1987, Hoffs starred in the film ""The Allnighter"", which was directed by her mother Tamar Simon Hoffs, and also featured Joan Cusack and Pam Grier. The film was critically panned, and failed"
"form the pop-group ICE together with Mellemseter. Gaathje subsequently left the music industry, while Lindvaag continued on as a writer and a producer. Credits: Anything But Monday (#2 US) Innocence (#1 Mexico) Miss A (#1 Korea, #1 Hong Kong, #1 Taiwan), Wonder Girls (#1 Korea, #5 Billboard World Album Chart), Chipz (#1 Holland, #5 Germany, #6 Austria, #12 Switzerland), Samantha Mumba (#1 UK), Soraya (Top 10 Spain), Anna Tsuchiya (Top 10 Japan), HotCha (Top 40 Japan), Sistanova (Germany), Jorun Stiansen (#6 Norway), Baracuda (#5 Norway, #3 Germany), Helene Rask (Top 10 Poland), Sandra Lyng Haugen (Top 10 Norway), Nikki Webster"
"which highlighted the achievements of women in the Australian music scene. Girl Monstar Girl Monstar were an all female Australian rock band which formed 1988 with the line-up of Damian Child on bass guitar; Anne McCue on lead guitar and vocals; Sherry Valier (aka Sherry Rich) on vocals and rhythm guitar (ex-Cactus Fever); and Sue World on drums and vocals (ex-Wet Ones). Both of their singles, ""Surfing on a Wave of Love"" / ""He's Hell"" (1989) and ""Joe Cool"" (1990), topped the Australian Independent charts. They issued one album, ""Monstereo Delicio"", in July 1992 on Timberyard Records. Child was replaced"
"Records). Elektra Records decided to sign the band shortly thereafter, reissuing their debut in 1982. The band then began a string of hit releases throughout the decade—1983's ""Shout at the Devil"", 1985's ""Theatre of Pain"", 1987's ""Girls, Girls, Girls"", and 1989's ""Dr. Feelgood""—establishing the quartet as one of the biggest hard rock/metal bands of the 1980s. Lee used several memorable gimmicks during his drum solos at concerts, such as having his entire kit revolving and spinning, or having the entire kit float above the crowd while he continued to play. He was legendary for mooning the crowd at nearly every"
"only) number 1 when ""Dare"", featuring the vocals of Happy Mondays singer Shaun Ryder topped the chart for a week. Pussycat Dolls reached number 1 on 11 September with ""Don't Cha"", becoming the first American girl band to top the charts since Destiny's Child in 2001. Their next release, ""Stickwitu"", would also top the chart for two weeks in early December. After a year's break, Sugababes returned to the top of the charts for the fourth time with the release of ""Push the Button"", and their fourth studio LP ""Taller in More Ways"". These releases along with the album's second"
"and ""Slow Hand"" (1981). The group found its biggest success with the release of the ""Break Out"" album in 1983 which featured hits such as ""Automatic"", ""Jump (For My Love)"", a re-released version of ""I'm So Excited"", ""Neutron Dance"", and ""Baby Come And Get It"". It's notable for featuring Ruth's lead vocals on ""Automatic"" and ""Neutron Dance"", which hit the top ten of the ""Billboard"" Hot 100 Chart and led to the group winning two Grammy Awards. Of the original members, Ruth, along with her sister Anita, are still active with The Pointer Sisters. They were joined by Ruth's daughter,"
"audience serving as the opening act for Cyndi Lauper on her Fun Tour. All this went some way to attracting the attention of Prince, who gave them ""Manic Monday"" originally written for his group Apollonia 6. ""Manic Monday"" went on to become a number-two hit in the US, the UK and Germany, outsold at the time only by another Prince composition, his own ""Kiss"". The band's second album ""Different Light"" (January 1986) was more polished than its predecessor and, with the help of the worldwide number-one hit ""Walk Like an Egyptian"" (written by Liam Sternberg), saw the band firmly in"
"Want to Hurt Me"" (1982), ""Time (Clock of the Heart)"" (1982) and ""Church of the Poison Mind"" (1983); Dexys Midnight Runners' ""Come On Eileen"" (1983); the Style Council's ""Shout to the Top"" (1984); Teena Marie's ""Lovergirl""(1985); Eurythmics' ""Missionary Man"" (1986) and Steve Winwood's ""Roll with It"" (1988). As the decade drew to a close, British artist Lisa Stansfield had considerable success on R&B radio, scoring three number-one R&B hits, the most popular being ""All Around the World"". A backlash ensued in the late 1980s as some black people felt that white people were cashing in on the popularity of their"
"point of the group, and attracted media attention with her sexually charged and rebellious image. The band was signed by MCA in December 1986 and released a cover version of the Holly and the Italians song ""Tell That Girl to Shut Up"" in late 1987. Months later the follow-up single ""I Want Your Love"", with its pop/punk crossover appeal, entered the Top 10 in the UK Singles Chart. The band went on to release the hit album ""Pop Art"" in October. 1989 was the band's most successful year, with the number 3 hit single ""Baby I Don't Care"" and hit"
"in 1985. Their name was chosen after they bought a distortion pedal for their guitars and Maggie Dunne stated ""We've got a fuzzbox and we're gonna use it!"". Their first release, in March 1986, was a single of ""XX Sex"" and ""Rules And Regulations"", with the fuzzbox featuring prominently, which reached No. 41 in the UK charts. This proved a huge success for the girls; despite not reaching the Top 40, the Vindaloo Records release remained in the Indie chart for twenty-five weeks. This led to tours of the UK and Europe and, in December that year, their debut album,"
"1978 and youngest sister Coleen, who had previously made occasional appearances (including appearing in the I'm In the Mood for Dancing video), became a full-time member in 1980, replacing Anne. Between 1979 and 1982, the group had seven UK top 20 hits, including ""Gotta Pull Myself Together"" (1980) ""Who's Gonna Rock You"" (1980), ""Attention to Me"" (1981) and ""Chemistry"" (1981). They were particularly successful in Japan and won the 1981 Tokyo Music Festival with the song ""Sexy Music"". Anne returned to the group in 1982, before Linda left in 1983. The group won a Japanese Grammy (Tokubetsu Kikaku Shō) in"
"disappointment after the across-the-board success of ""Whitesnake"""". Aerosmith's comeback album ""Permanent Vacation"" (1987) would begin a decade long revival of their popularity. ""Crazy Nights"" (1987) by Kiss was the band's highest charting release in the US since 1979 and the highest of their career in the UK. Mötley Crüe with ""Girls, Girls, Girls"" (1987) continued their commercial success and Def Leppard with ""Hysteria"" (1987) hit their commercial peak, the latter producing seven hit singles (a record for a hard rock act). Guns N' Roses released the best-selling début of all time, ""Appetite for Destruction"" (1987). With a ""grittier"" and ""rawer"""
"1986 in British music This is a summary of 1986 in music in the United Kingdom, including the official charts from that year. The first number 1 single of 1986 was the breakthrough hit for London synthpop duo the Pet Shop Boys. Their song ""West End Girls"" had climbed the charts during late 1985 and reached number 1 for two weeks in January. They would have three more top 20 hits this year as well as two top 20 albums, and were still reaching the top 10 in 2006, twenty years later. Another popular synthpop duo this year were Erasure,"
"single, ""Wannabe"". Spice Girls The Spice Girls are an English pop girl group formed in 1994. The group comprised Melanie Brown (""Scary Spice""), Melanie Chisholm (""Sporty Spice""), Emma Bunton (""Baby Spice""), Geri Halliwell (""Ginger Spice""), and Victoria Beckham, née Adams (""Posh Spice""). They were signed to Virgin Records and released their debut single ""Wannabe"" in 1996, which hit number one in 37 countries and established their global success. Their debut album ""Spice"" sold more than 31 million copies worldwide, becoming the best-selling album by a female group in history. Their follow-up album, ""Spiceworld"" sold over 20 million copies worldwide. The"
"The Cover Girls The Cover Girls is a New York City-based freestyle girl group that achieved most of its chart success in the late 1980s and early 1990s. Among the group's best-known songs are ""Show Me"", ""Because of You"", ""My Heart Skips a Beat"", ""We Can't Go Wrong"", ""Funk Boutique"" and ""Wishing on a Star"". The Cover Girls began its musical career in 1986, at a time when other American and British girl groups such as Exposé, Bananarama, Seduction, Sweet Sensation and Company B were scoring hit singles on the pop and dance charts. The group was formed by music"
"2 on the Billboard charts. On the week it might have reached No. 1, Whitney Houston's second album, ""Whitney,"" debuted at the top of the charts. Eventually, the group's 1989 album ""Dr. Feelgood"" would go on to claim the top ""Billboard"" spot. The album was also the band's third straight album to go quadruple platinum, after ""Shout at the Devil"" and ""Theatre of Pain"". 2017 Reissue DVD Listing Album Singles Girls, Girls, Girls (Mötley Crüe album) Girls, Girls, Girls is the fourth studio album by American heavy metal band Mötley Crüe, released on May 15, 1987. The album contains a"
"Mary Jane Girls The Mary Jane Girls were an American R&B, soul and funk group in the 1980s. They were protégées of singer Rick James. They are known for their hit songs ""In My House"", ""All Night Long"", ""Candy Man"", and their cover version of ""Walk Like a Man"". Joanne ""Jojo"" McDuffie was the lead singer, the others filling out the group's style and appearance. On the studio recordings, McDuffie was backed by session vocalists rather than the other Mary Jane Girls. The Mary Jane Girls released two albums in the 1980s and recorded a third which was never released."
"first all-female band to reach the Hot 100's top 40, with ""Charity Ball"" peaking at #40. The track had even greater success on WLS, peaking at #3 between October 25 and November 1, 1971. In 1975, the Canadian duo of sisters, Kate & Anna McGarrigle, recorded the first of a string of albums, sometimes joined by their sister Jane. The Runaways were an early commercially successful, hard-edged, all-female hard rock band, releasing their first album in 1976; band members Joan Jett, Cherie Currie, and Lita Ford all went on to solo careers. In the United Kingdom, the advent of punk"
"Spice Girls The Spice Girls are an English pop girl group formed in 1994. The group comprised Melanie Brown (""Scary Spice""), Melanie Chisholm (""Sporty Spice""), Emma Bunton (""Baby Spice""), Geri Halliwell (""Ginger Spice""), and Victoria Beckham, née Adams (""Posh Spice""). They were signed to Virgin Records and released their debut single ""Wannabe"" in 1996, which hit number one in 37 countries and established their global success. Their debut album ""Spice"" sold more than 31 million copies worldwide, becoming the best-selling album by a female group in history. Their follow-up album, ""Spiceworld"" sold over 20 million copies worldwide. The Spice Girls"